By Vishav, New Delhi : Government's Chief Statistician T.C.A. Anant has no worries that the government may breach the fiscal deficit target of 3.2 per cent of the GDP for the current fiscal. In fact, he feels revenue would be buoyant by year-end and that the targeted...
By Anand Singh, New Delhi : Stinking and non-functioning toilets on Indian Railways -- one of the world's largest rail networks -- may soon become a thing of the past. The national transporter is upgrading its bio-toilets to imported bio-vacuum toilets -- the kind...
By Rajnish Singh, New Delhi : It didn't take long for fake notes of 2,000 rupees to start circulating after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation in November 2016, with one of its stated aims being to kill counterfeit currency, official data show....
New Delhi : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the Central government was fully committed to safeguard the interests of the workers, especially those working in the MSME and the unorganized sector. Holding pre-Budget consultations with representatives of...
Mumbai : Credit ratings agency ICRA on Tuesday said that healthy passenger load factors, along with a decline in competitive intensity is expected to aid the Indian aviation industry to reduce its losses in FY2018. As per a research note by ICRA, healthy passenger...
Hyderabad : India's largest makerspace, a prototyping and design centre, will come up here next year and will have equipment worth over $20 million, Telangana's Industry Minister K.T. Rama Rao announced here on Tuesday. To be known as T-Works, the facility will come...
New Delhi : Industry body Ficci on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give the inaugural address at its 90th annual general meeting (AGM) which will held from December 13 to 14, 2017. According to Ficci, this will be for the first time that Prime...
New Delhi : India's domestic passenger traffic grew by 20.4 per cent in October, a global airline association said on Monday. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), India's domestic demand -- revenue passenger kilometres (RPK) -- was highest...
Kolkata : Coal India Ltd (CIL) on Sunday said coal supplies to power utilities increased by 9.2 per cent to 290.59 million tonnes (mt) during April to November period of the current fiscal compared to 266 mt during same period last year. "On the back of higher rake...
By V.S. Chandrasekar, New Delhi : Debunking the "Gujarat model of development" propagated by the BJP, Sam Pitroda, who was instrumental in launching India's telecom revolution in the mid-1980s under then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has said the state needs a...